This is an analysis of L’inconnue by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Is thy name Mary, maiden fair?
Such should, methinks, its music be;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dadaee fcfcdd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 01110101 11100100 01011101 010101 110101110 110111010 11111111 11011101 11111101 111001 11110111 11100101 11010111 01110101 11011101 110101 01010101 01011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
i, thy
Anaphora
i